Quotes About Royalty

But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations.

En ese sombrío día de diciembre de 1542 en el que nace en el castillo de Linlithgow, su padre, Jacobo V, yace al mismo tiempo en su lecho de muerte en la vecina fortaleza de Falkland, con sólo treinta y un años de edad y sin embargo ya quebrado por la vida, cansado de la corona, cansado de luchar.

O femeie este cu atît mai nobil? È™i mai cinstit? cu cît urmeaz?, liber?, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – È™i o regin? este cu atît mai regal?, cu cît se poart? cît mai omeneÈ™te.

Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy.

had been the personal mount of King Peter II of Yugoslavia.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Toss back your coif and quaff, my querulous queen!

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

Eventually he made it to Buckingham Palace, where the king famously startled Lindbergh by asking him how he had peed during the flight. Lindbergh explained, a touch awkwardly, that he had brought along a pail for the purpose.

Queen Elizabeth, in a much-cited quote, faithfully bathed once a month "whether she needs it or no.

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead—all at least mildly toxic

The queen also toyed with the idea of making the whole of St. James's Park private, and asked her prime minister, Robert Walpole, how much that would cost. "Only a crown, Madam," he replied with a thin smile.

would have to say that the crown resting on the head of my

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

O rei está rodeado de pessoas cujo único pensamento é divertir o rei, e evitar que ele pense em si mesmo. Porque ele será infeliz, embora rei, se pensar em si mesmo.

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me—who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

The prince's weary features looked like parchment pulled over bone;

That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

Young, handsome, blond as ice, and dressed as splendidly as King Malban himself, if with better taste.

The Queen had awakened him shortly after dawn, a call from Buck House. Her Majesty the Queen was fit to be tied.